Sentences with phrase «at particular schools»

The committee stalled desegregation efforts by giving local school districts control over student assignments at particular schools, blocking African - Americans from attending all - white public schools.

Another alternative for choice systems is to have the lotteries that underlie them incorporate bonus points for applicants that are from groups that have historically been under represented at particular schools.

«We can debate facts at particular schools but you just can't deny that some places are getting phenomenal results — results that should be celebrated, not called out as fraudulent.»

All this movement of teachers among schools obviously affects the composition of the teaching force at particular schools.

Although reformers can point to piecemeal efforts that have moved the needle at particular schools, those programs typically owe their success to a deep and sustained commitment by a single prominent scientist or campus leader.

This target was imposed upon Local Education Authorities, which are required to draw up detailed class size plans and to restrict admissions or increase teaching capacity at particular schools to enable the targets to be met.

Admissions committees are looking for applicants who show they're driven and passionate about taking their career to the next stage, and who know exactly why they want to pursue an MBA at a particular school.

Menus: School breakfast menus can be accessed online, including the average nutritional info per serving; please note that you should conduct your own nutrient analysis, as the numbers are likely to change depending on the products used at your particular school!

So we can only say how this product works at a particular school,» he says.

And it looks like may be an honors student at that particular school.

If students at a particular school achieve at high levels and show strong growth, that school probably doesn't have the same urgency around identifying poor performers.

When students at a particular school are outpacing the typical student in the rest of the state, most people would agree the rate of learning is, at least, better than average.

In Houston, as in so many urban districts, the accounting system pretends that every teacher earns the average salary of teachers in the district rather than accounting for the actual costs of the salaries at a particular school.

«In England's system, not only can you go to a web site and pull up any report over time, they are very precise and very frank and to the point about what is good and what can be improved at any particular school.»

In other words, the staff at this particular school had learned how to make performance data a useful ally rather than a cause of constant alarm or frustration.

Just how states address this issue if the participation rate of all students (or a subgroup of students) at a particular school falls below 95 percent is up to them.

Although the anti-gifted and anti-parent attitude demonstrated by this particular administrator at this particular school is extreme, and the frankness with which the attitude was expressed is atypical in my experience - the belief system underlying the attitude is, unfortunately, a common one.

The first step toward creating an effective schoolwide antibullying program is identifying where, when, and how students experience bullying at a particular school.

There is also evidence that it is not only teachers» overall experience that improves student outcomes, but also that consistency and continuity in teachers» experience at a particular school matters.

There are scholarships if you live in India and are a religious minority but there are also scholarships that are limited to non-US citizens at a particular school or study.

They taught large classes for little pay, and were professional vagabonds, limited to two or three years at a particular school.1 During these decades, most legal writing courses were pass / fail; they carried little academic credit, and even less respect.

I knew that eating on the road could be a problem, but it's also an issue at this particular school.

And on occasion individuals rediscover their passion for teaching, realising that perhaps it wasn't the job they had the issue with, it was a difficult relationship at that particular school.

Not exact matches

«Right now, there is absolutely no question that there is an association between having a history of repetitive hits to the head and later - life neurodegenerative disease, and in particular chronic traumatic encephalopathy,» says Dr. Robert Stern, professor of neurology at the Boston University School of Medicine, and director of clinical research at BU's Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy Center.

In a recent interview with the Yale Daily News, Snyder said, «This particular school at this particular juncture has a great opportunity that no other school has, and that is to leverage an eminent university at a time when that is what is really needed.»

As a PhD candidate at Weill Cornell Medical School, Piraye Beim spent much of her time trying to figure out why a particular cancer drug was lifesaving for some patients but useless — or worse — for most.

And while these words are commonly found in everyday conversations, Steven D. Cohen, an award - winning speaker who leads career and academic workshops on public speaking at Harvard Extension School, argues that «they often detract from the listener's ability to understand a particular message.»

Much of the research on the applications of silk come out of the Tufts School of Engineering at Tufts University in Medford, Mass., in particular from the work of two biomedical engineering researchers, Fiorenzo Omenetto and David Kaplan.

As part of the Innovation Policy Lab research for the University of Toronto's Munk School of Global Affairs» Creating Digital Opportunity (CDO) project, this report looks at Canadian high - tech companies in Asia, in particular the «micro-multinationals,» or companies that apart from Asia have locations in either the U.S. or Europe, or both.

«This group is very highly credentialed, and given those particular assumptions, they should rise at the same level,» said Anthony Mayo, a co-author and professor at Harvard Business School.

The court opined (contrary to all the evidence) that the «pervasively sectarian» atmosphere of the parochial schools might cause remedial teachers, either «subtly or overtly,» to begin to «indoctrinate the students in particular religious tenets at public expense.»

The enrollment trends out of Fuller reflect what's happening at a lot of Christian schools — and seminary programs in particular.

This statement comes from one of my ninth graders in response to yet another lecture of mine on how important it is for students to bring their literature books to class — a particular hurdle in my case because I teach at a military school....

Trained as a liturgist and musician at Yale Divinity School and the Institute of Sacred Music, Emily has followed a particular interest in the intersection of worship and the arts.

Thus emptied, Marthe set up — through supportive friends and priests — a school for girls at Chateauneuf and then, with the particular support of her spiritual director Fr Finet, the first «Foyer of Charity».

Schools often feel that they must implement a particular SRE scheme because otherwise their pupils will be at greater risk of early pregnancy.

Dr David Landrum, director of advocacy at the EA, said: «As we expected, the report shows how strongly faith groups, parents and others feel about proposals to register and regulate out - of - school settings, and in particular about the role of Ofsted.

Islam is not merely a body of doctrines expressed in the Qur» an and the prophetic Traditions; neither is it best represented by the orthodox school at any particular time.

In a curriculum series for church leaders published by The John Lloyd Ogilvie Institute at my school, Fuller Theological Seminary, I detailed some of the educational challenges we are facing and some potential solutions Christians in particular can undertake in addressing those challenges.

More significant, though, has been the continuing impact of Benedict XVI, who at the beatification Mass in September 2010 paid «particular tribute to [Newman's] vision for education, which has done so much to shape the ethos that is the driving force behind Catholic schools and colleges today.

As the Children's Schools and Families Bill 2009/2010 hurtles towards Royal Assent via the debating of committee stage amendments, there is a great deal at stake for home schoolers in particular and liberty in general.

Do you drop out of school altogether if the politics / people at a particular one aren't working out for you?

One could hardly think of a suggestion more incompatible with the mindset of liberals in general, and liberal New York Jews in particular, than providing educational vouchers that could be used to subsidize enrollment at parochial schools.

Kids in particular tend to adore juice, at breakfast, after school, with dinner, before bed... but you need to be careful of the sugar content.

Middle and high school students, in particular, are learning how to look at the week ahead, predict which days will be packed and which may be free, and should be allowed to work on tasks in their own schedule.

I agree that schools should be modeling proper behavior, and that comparing a particular offering in the food line with teachers and parents personally handing out cupcakes to every kid is not fair at all.

In the end, it all comes back to education: In the ideal world, a parent's decision about whether to allow a child to start playing or continue playing collision sports before high school under current rules of play (which are evolving in the direction of safety, fortunately, as seen, for instance, in USA Hockey's ban on body checking at the Pee Wee hockey level and below, and limits on full - contact practices instituted at every level of football, from Pop Warner, to high school, college, and the NFL), will be a conscious one; a decision in which the risks of participating in a particular sport - provided it is based on the most up - to - date information about those risks and a consideration of other risk factors that might come into play for their child, such as pre-existing learning disabilities (e.g. ADHD), chronic health conditions (e.g., a history of history of multiple concussions or seizures, history of migraines), or a reckless and overly aggressive style of play - are balanced against the benefits to the child of participating.

«The results of this study demonstrate that the K - D test is an accurate and reliable method for identifying athletes with head trauma, and is a strong candidate for a rapid sideline screening test for concussion, [with] particular relevance to contact sports including football, soccer, hockey, MMA and boxing,» wrote co-author, Dr. Laura J. Balcer of the Department of Neurology, Opthalmology, and Epidemiology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.

In particular, such stressors compromise the higher order thinking skills that allow students to sort out complex and seemingly contradictory information such as when the letter C is pronounced like K (what psychologists call «executive functioning»), and their ability to keep a lot of information in their heads at once, a skill known as «working memory» that's crucial to success in school, college, and work.

As you read, keep in mind that there are true believers arguing on both sides of the issue, and that the best school is the one that is a good match for a particular child at a particular time in his or her life.